Russian Military Transport Aircraft An-26 Crashes in Crimea Killing 29 - The State Signal

Russian Military Transport Aircraft An-26 Crashes in Crimea Killing 29

ByThe State Signal Newsdesk

RUSSIA – A Russian military transport aircraft AN-26 crashed in Crimea, killing all 29 onboard, according to the Defense Ministry on Wednesday.

Among them were 6 crew members and 23 passengers.

“During a scheduled flight over the Crimean peninsula on March 31 at around 6:00 PM Moscow time (1500GMT), communication with the An-26 military transport aircraft was lost,” the ministry said.

A search and rescue team located the crash site of the An-26 aircraft, and there were no survivors, it added.

A commission from the ministry is working at the crash site.

No evidence of external impact on the aircraft has been found, and the preliminary cause of the incident is a technical malfunction, the ministry noted.

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